Yet I unresting through a world at rest,

Went silent with my memory and my pain;

Then, for a little space, across the years

To me, bowed down with time and worn with tears,

My friends came back again.

By many a spot where summer could not last,

In other days, for all our joy too long,

They came about me from the shadowy past,

As last I saw them, young and gay and strong;

And she, my heart, came fair as in the days